How to stop windows from opening Zip folders in the explorer view?

Question

I don't want windows to be able to open zip files in the explorer view. How do I go about disabling this?

Solution

The following is an illustrated and detailed guide about your problem:
Windows 7 - Zip Folders - Enable or Disable Windows Explorer View

Comments

[Dan]

In case that link ever goes away - the removal for ZIP folders is deletion of the following registry keys: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CompressedFolder\CLSID and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.zip\CLSID and similarly for CAB files. If you want to re-enable, create those keys again and set their default REG_SZ values to {E88DCCE0-B7B3-11d1-A9F0-00AA0060FA31}; CAB is: {0CD7A5C0-9F37-11CE-AE65-08002B2E1262}